Lunchtime Life Collection

This may end up being a weekly feature.
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Let's get the badness out of the way:

Nevada Senate candidate Sharron Angle suggests Second Amendment Remedies for Harry Reid and company. Honey, let me quote Inspector Howie here: "Next year it'll be you." You advocate violence now, but know the mob always turns...

New Mexico Congress candidate suggests mining the Mexico border. Oh, he's nice enough to clearly mark it, but landmines? Are we Soviet Russia in reverse?

The Texas Republican Party Platform. Or Emily Veinglory's summary: no divorce, no ENDA, giving a marriage license to a same-sex couple=felony. Uganda, Texas. Texas, Uganda. It can happen here, folks.

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The new restrictions on overdraft chicanery are causing the end of free checking. Checking wasn't free when I got my first account. $8/mo service fee, or 25c/check & 10c/atm transaction. Anyone want my credit union lecture?

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Former justice David Souter tells America to grow up. Life is complicated, judging is hard and sometimes good things conflict with each other.
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Home workers put in about 57 hours a week, without feeling overburdened.
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Enthusastic sexual consent made easy: a checklist of activity.~
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World of Warcraft Beatitudes. swiped from gweneiriol . Blessed are the Paladins, because, well, they're Paladins and that's their schtick.
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It is Litha, the Summer Solstice. Blessing to those who are celebrating the Holly King's return
A Litha Primer from Witchvox
Honor the Father, Honor the Sun, also from Witchvox
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day 08 - a song that you know all the words to

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Blots from the Debauched Desk

• 20:12 @BrianaStJames Hi yourself. I'm busily writing. You'll see something new out of me by September, I hope. And .doc is eating Georgia font. #
• 23:30 @BrianaStJames no steampunk right now. But there will be more soon. Let me play with a couple of premises. Poking at kinky contemps. #
• 23:32 Dollface's quote of the Day: My mama. Only my and Bun's mama. The boys don't get any. #
• 23:32 *sigh* I cannot deal with men over the internet. They make me want to join lesbian separatist guerrillas. #

Please to be sweeping them into the wastebasket now
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Thoughts on gender performance

So. I cut my hair today. It had been getting about chin length and I had that generic Mom 'do. It's short now. Really short. As in, I need a leather jacket, black plastic comb and brylcreem. I have a k.d.lang/James Dean/generic bad boy cut now.

And this leads me to thinking about how I'll be presenting at the book signing in July. Do I go very feminine, pink camisole, sheer pink patterned blouse and beige maxi skirt? Do I show up in the band collared shirt and leather jacket? The clothes make a big difference.

According to heraldofdarknes I move entirely differently depending on what I'm wearing.

Jeans and a t-shirt, I'm myself. Middle-aged, smart mouthed, funny, not at all sexy. I might wear perfume, no telling what it will be. Makeup is minimal.

Put the band-collared shirt, the denim vest, boots, pocket watch, flask and hat on me, and I am instantly the biggest butchest bad-ass in the room, even when I'm shorter and out-armed. I stalk. I strut. I glare. I sneer at the cameras. I smell of leather and vetiver and smoke and roses. Because I am Angelina Fucking Calamity and you do not want a piece of me.

But put me in the skirt and blouse above and sandals and my walk changes. My steps get shorter and lighter. My attitude changes. I'm sweet and a little flirty. I take up less space. I smile more. My scent is pink, floral and fruity. I wear makeup and jewelry.

The latter two are entirely performance. And I can't wait to see how the haircut affects them.

State of the Sooky

Off work today

Fly: swish and swipe, made bed, 15 minutes in bedroom. Kids: 15 minutes hunting books and DVDs, 15 minutes in their rooms.

Writing:
Fruits of Thine 244, 2268 total
Manhunt 181, 3769 total
Longtem 160, 9733 total

I'm plodding, but the numbers are going up

Tomorrow, work, work out, bleh.